The Sims as NFT's

@Trismagistos I just noticed your reply. Apologies for the delayed response, though if I'd responded earlier, it would have been less interesting.  Clearly, fate intervened.  (winky emoji)

I have a feeling the thread may be short b/c we're outliers. lol. fwiw, I don't think being an outlier is a bad thing. (:  And I think your explanation was very good.  Accessible and to the point.  The only thing I thought might be a useful addition was that I think NFTs have to exist as a unique, non-reproducible entity. (In theory, should be easy enough to do digitally.  I just don't know enough about the construct of a 'Sim' to know if/how that would be accomplished.) 

I recognize this is a fairly technical conversation that's also veering off the topic du jour (Sims 4), but I was going to add one last thought. Assuming it won't veer back on topic, I'm open to continuing the discussion offline.  Feel free to message me.  The phrase 'getting into the weeds' I think was meant to convey a negative connotation, but for whatever reason, I don't have much of a problem cultivating curiosity.

NFTs came up on the podcast Pivot last week, just as a brief aside, but it lodged in my mind and I've been mulling it over since. I had always considered the concept of NFTs to be pretty funny, in an absurd way.  Like a cheap knockoff of the Bitcoin phenomena, but with no purpose other than a hope of creating some market value from nothing more than an obscure technical theory.  I think I was wrong...maybe?  Apparently it's an established assumption that NFTs will be the currency of the metaverse. (Wait...what?? Metaverse??  Somehow not surprised we have Neal Stephenson to thank for that term.)  Anyways, still collecting the shards of my blown mind.  lol.  I just did a quick google search => signing off with a couple relavent links for @Trismagistos and anyone else who's curious - it'll be faster than queueing up a string of recent Pivot episodes hoping to catch the aside. 

Cheers 

(PS it prob would be ok to close out this thread.)  (PPS @CGrant56 congrats on the new title - I've always appreciated the quality of your posts and tech guidance. Much deserved. Dunno what admin rights were conveyed, but since you're on the thread and I saw the star, I thought I'd call you out.  Mostly to say congrats. (:  Closing the thread was a suggestion mainly intended to offer protection against me replying off topic again.  I do try to be good.)

Washington Post on metaverse (NYT has one too, but you can google it if you want it.  I'm a WaPo girl.)

Bloomberg on NFTs and metaverse 

Motley Fool defines metaverse (youtube) 

Edit: removed ugly winky face emoji